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What are people usong as thei music player app nowadays? (lemmy.world)

submitted 6 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) by spacemanspiffy@lemmy.world to c/linuxphones@lemmy.ml

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I have been using Lollypop on my phone for about 2 years now. I have tried a few other apps but nothing worked quite as well for me as Lollypop.

That said, I still have a lot of gripes with Lollypop. Rather than complain about it, though, I'd rather hear about something new.

The last time I went looking for a new app was in 2023. Is there anything new in 2025 worth checking out?

My wants:

Large-ish local library (350gb) and I want it to load/scroll through fast. Lollypop is quite slow here.
I really prefer the UI to list artists, open one, then list albums, open one, then list songs. Too many apps list all your albums, or all your individual songs, and I hate this.

Edit: I guess I need to specify, I am looking for Linux-native apps. A few of the suggestions so far have been Android, and I am not seeking to run anything in Waydroid for this.

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[–] linmob@lemmy.ml 1 points 12 hours ago

+1 for Gapless. My library is not nearly as large, but it's still plenty quick (no noticeable delay) with my 1 digit gigabytes library and IMHO the best native feeling media player on Phosh/GNOME Mobile.

It also does the Album -> Artist -> Song thing (which made me notice that I still have not fixed every error in metadata I managed to add to a part of my Library by blindly applying musicbraiz suggestions via Tagger, but that's just a me thing).